The Foghorn's Lament - The Disappearing Music of the Coast.
by ALLAN, JENNIFER LUCY:
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 1474615031
- ISBN 13
- 9781474615037
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UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around seascape colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with glossy pale green-lettered part-title and white lettered sub-title,capitalised glossy green/blue-lettered author name; and other white+pale green lettered review; spine/ backstrip with similalrly coloured+lettered part title,glossy pale blue-lettered author name and publisher'scapitalised white-lettered +illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with critics' white+pale green-lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners, head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocaal creases – but no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edge colour tinted very pale yellow,fore-edges lightly toned(?) but clean without any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered spine/ backstrip,a yellow headband,and immaculate plain yellow endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-296pp [paginated] includes a Prologue,4 sections comprising 6,5,7 and 2 chapters respectively,an Epilogue,some contemporary b/w photographs and b/w diagrams interspersed throughout the text and the book,Acknowledgements, Illustration credits,Notes; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,an epigram,and a Contents list/table. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness and brightness and lack of detracting faults. What does the foghorn sound like? It sounds huge. It rattles. It rattles you. It is a booming, lonely sound echoing into the vastness of the sea. When Jennifer Lucy Allan hears the foghorn's colossal bellow for the first time, it marks the beginning of an obsession and a journey deep into the history of a sound that has carved out the identity and the landscape of coastlines around the world, from Scotland to San Francisco. Within its sound is a maritime history of shipwrecks and lighthouse keepers, the story and science of our industrial past, and urban myths relaying tales of foghorns in speaker stacks,blasting out for coastal raves. An odyssey told through the people who battled the sea and the sound,who lived with it and loathed it,and one woman's intrepid voyage through the howling loneliness of nature.Part memoir,part travelogue,part history of the foghorn: a uniquely ambitious new kind of nature book. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **
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- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
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- Title
- The Foghorn's Lament - The Disappearing Music of the Coast.
- Author
- ALLAN, JENNIFER LUCY:
- Illustrator
- illus with contemporary b/w photographs and b/w diagrams.
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1474615031
- ISBN 13
- 9781474615037
- Publisher
- LONDON.WHITE RABBIT/an imprintof The Orion Publishing Group Ltd.,2021.
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